ÉCU-ON-THE-ROAD IS HEADING TO ÅRHUS – THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2017 ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival will be screening a selection of the World’s best independent short films at Super8000 Film Festival on the 27th October 2017 in Århus, Denmark. The Super8000 festival and The European Independent Film Festival’s – Special Selection screening […]

ÉCU is thrilled to share, once again, some of its best independent films with its partner festival, Naperville Independent Film Festival. The 10th annual edition of NIFF will take place on September 23rd-30th 2017 in Naperville, Illinois, USA. This year, 15 award winning films from the 12th edition of ÉCU – The European Independent […]

ÉCU-On-The-Road continues its World-wide tour with a screening in Athens. ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival will be screening a selection of some of the best independent films from around the World in Athens, Greece from the 30th August to the 1st September, 2017. The screenings will take place at the XYTHPIO Theatre Art Café in the Gazi area of Athens and will start at 20.45 every night from Wednesday until Friday and will […]

Français One more time we are reaching the end of another month. Even with the days getting shorter and even with the clocks changing we are still as active as ever in the office. October has been an extremely busy month with ÉCU-ON-THE-ROAD travelling to North Africa, for two of our partner festivals, the Qabila […]

Français From the 16th to 18th October ÉCU will be in Aarhus, Denmark to take part in one of its Nordic partner festivals, Aarhus Independent Pixels, a new Nordic short film and photography festival. Located in the centre of Aarhus, it aims to give support and promote young, independent artists up to the age of […]

Français On the 8th October, ÉCU will land in Cairo for the 3rd Annual Qabila Festival, our Egyptian partner festival. From 8th to 10th October, five films from ÉCU’s 2015 Official Selection, including two award winning films will be screened among the immense program of 173 films at the festival! It will be an event […]

Français September is coming to an end and here at ÉCU we’ve been extremely busy getting back into the swing of things. While our summer interns may have gone off back to their studies, off to live with monks or eskimos or have just gone off to pursue the usual other things that humans do, a […]

Français ÉCU at Cabriolet Film Festival We are happy that Cabriolet Film Festival based in Lebanon has been ÉCU’s festival partner for several years now. Each year the festival puts together an amazing three consecutive nights of screenings on Gemmayzeh Stairs in the heart of Beirut City. Their 2015 festival is taking place between May […]

Français For ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival, three days in Paris is just not enough. We love travelling around the world making sure our Official Selection filmmakers and films are known. This can best be achieved through promoting and screening the best indie films, so ÉCU will attend the Cannes Film Festival! Cannes Film Festival strives to encourage […]

This January ÉCU-on-the-Road tour stopped in São Paulo, Brazil, to screen a selection of the best independent films from the previous editions of ÉCU. From January 14th to February 4th, screenings and workshops were held at Caixa Belas Artes. We were very happy to screen these films in São Paulo, such a cultural and vibrant […]

This January ÉCU-on-the-Road tour stopped in São Paulo, Brazil, to screen a selection of the best independent films from the previous editions of ÉCU. From January 14th to February 4th, screenings and workshops were held at Caixa Belas Artes. We were very happy to screen these films in São Paulo, such a cultural and vibrant city. It […]

Shortcutz Berlin and Creative Media e.V. presents ÉCU-in-Berlin. From January 14th-15th ÉCU is happy to host it’s first ever special screening event in Germany. This will all take place at Lagari Bar, an exciting location in the heart of Neukölln. We are very excited to be screening these films in such a vibrant and cultural […]

Out come the thick coats, hats and scarves here in Paris. Winter’s bitter chill has arrived and it looks like it’s here to stay. That hasn’t stopped us from keeping busy. November has been a very exciting month here at ÉCU. We’ve received so many wonderful film and script submissions this month and our Early […]

It’s November and it’s time for a new stop of our ÉCU-on-the-Road tour! This time we are going to Moscow, Russia, where the 34° VGIK International Student Festival will be held from the 17th to the 23th in the cinema hall of one of the oldest film school in the world – VGIK. The festival itself is one of the […]

ÉCU has had a pretty busy month this October! With the skies turning grey and the rain closing in we have had no excuse but to watch all of the amazing submissions we have been receiving. Aside from this we have also continued screening ÉCU 2014 winning films all around the world. First, our ÉCU-on-the-Road […]

We are very happy that once again our filmmakers have the opportunity to show their talent around the world, thanks to our partner festivals. The next stop on our ÉCU-on-the-Road tour is Aarhus Independent Pixels in Denmark! We will be presenting a special screening program of ÉCU 2014 winning films: – CLOSED BOX, dramatic short […]

Français When filmmakers submit a film to ÉCU, they have not just the opportunity to show their work to an audience at ÉCU Film Festival in Paris, but they have the chance to be part of the ÉCU-on-the-Road tour and screen their film around the globe. And all this is possible because of the partnerships […]